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that is leveled, don't worry about it. pressing home will lift it up a tiny bit to allow for the vat

It's supposed to do that.

Home is not Z=0

Home position is not at all zero

Z=0 is at an offset from home

I'll just repeat one more time ;o. The home position is set by an optical sensor you can see at the back inside your printer. Z=0 is set relative to home, and is normally a few mm below (closer to the bottom of the printer) the home position.

Unless u chances the file name from RERF, all 8 should be with different layer time and thereby have different rate of details?? There file is to determine the exposure time for your specific resin.

I got my Photon S the other day and this was the only file there at first too. If you plug the usb stick into a computer the lattice cube file should be in one of the folders if you want to give that a go as well. It just needs to be in the root of the drive and not in a folder to be seen.

Although, if one of those came out as just a flat square like I'm seeing on the photo, I'm pretty sure that's not good. This print tests your resin UV exposure to make sure it's all good for your printer, as required time to cure varies from brand to b rand. You basically pick out the best looking one and adjust the UV exposure by the number on it under the dimple board and above the Anycubic name. There's supposed to be 8 of them.

Anders Jens Ramm Thank you so much, you're a livesaver :)

Please share, what use u have of that information ?

Anders Jens Ramm İ've calculated how much resin i've left. Due to covid19 no one is selling resin on my counrty right now. Shops closed undefinetly. :(

Hamza Doğan I am ordering from Anycubic, they still ship in Europe from Germany.

I ALWAYS wanted to know that!!! ? ? ?

I wish all manufacturers listed the weight of the bottle (or the empty spool for FDM printers)

File type?

If thats the USB stick that came with it - theyre pretty shite. Try formatting it first and try again - or just get a better USB stick

1. Can be usb (don’t use the original one that came with the printer)
2. Update the software - helped in my case

Nicholas Langston Looks like .PWS

Isn't that how you put it in test mode to run the exposure test?

Sometimes people don't convert it to a photon file type when they first start out, hence my comment

I thought everyone was being silly about the USB stick. Ran my unit for a couple months...boom...silly issues started happening. Switched my stick...no more issues.

Thank you every one beginners mistake(I changed the USB)

The first print is done, but instead of a circle it came out elliptical (I printed it with an angle with support). How can I fix it?

Carlos Loaiza looks like overexposure but a picture of the actual file you wanted to print would be helpful

Josh Berkley

Carlos Loaiza how did you have it supported?

Josh Berkley the first time I did auto support with angle and the second time auto without rotation

Almost the issue

Carlos Loaiza what I would do is orient it vertically and only support the bottom. You won't need anything on the interior of the ring resin is capable of completely that circle without it

Your build plate is either too far or too close. Need to level it with the plastic sheet not paper, and back it off .5 millimeter, five steps up on the smallest increment on the plate up command.

Meshmixer is pretty easy to use. I use it to slice off the base on minis so it sounds like it would work for what you want

Daniel Faubert ditto, free and painless software.

3d builder.

AlhamdulILLAH Mr.Nasir Hussain, Insha ALLOH it will be good result, Amin.

I love the Elegoo ABS resins. So far great detail and easy to dial in and, in my opinion, slightly less smell.

There is a South American brand in the market, that is cheap and pretty good

monocure

I am using monocure atm because its hard to find other brand in AU. I am loving the quality but it is slightly more expensive.

Brad Thomson I’ve got their clear flex and clear rapid. The clear rapid hasn’t impressed me so far and their dispatch is crazy slow

Where in aus are you?

Gotta Recommend Siraya Fast, it’s so good, rarely fails, strong and not brittle. Only thing is that strength comes with difficulty taking supports off.

Matthew Phillips newcastle

for the photon use the rapid, i use a mix of flex and green, ordered twice, 1 arrived just today, always been only about 3days from ordering to del, im in melb aswell

I mostly print prototype mechanical parts, and dimension accuracy wise I find that the grey is better

Calvin Vong I’ve always ordered express and it hasn’t dispatched for a couple of days

https://aurarum.com.au/....../abs-like-3d-printer....../

Melbourne based, I've been using this with zero issues seems to match the Anycubic for details and quality. I've used the same settings for the appropriate color, this is just one color that have others

Jason James Grubb hmm looks interesting. Any experience with their water pressure washable resin? I have tried one yet

Sam Spencer I am also based in Melb, I have only used the standard auspost far, takes about one week to arrive for me.

Sam Spencer I have bought eSun resin from cubic tech in Sydney and was happy with the results.

Difficulty taking supports off? Not with a dremel!

I second the monocure it comes within 2-4 Days in victoria and i am using for dnd minis has been really good so far

I’ve been using these guys lately. I have a bottle of their water resin which I hw ent tried yet, but I have been pretty happy with the rest for the most part.

Monocure

I just bought 5 litres of monocure. Seems best bang for buck here, hot tip, leave it in your cart for an hour and u might get a reminder email with a 15% discount

https://www.k-lab.com.au/....../msla-dental-model-grey

Monocure. I used ac eco and the weight difference is noticeable. Feels alot more solid

Are you buying directly from Monocure or another retailer. Who's cart should I leave it in to get the discount, lol

Jason Chadwell monocure direct. U add to cart, it makes u register, then dont process it. I left it about an hour while looking for other stuff and I got an email saying I left something in my cart and 15%off

Great, thanks for the tip!

I do anycubic grey mixed with flex or tough resins

I havent no.

Danny Gonzalez I second this. The Siraya Fast ABS like gray rocks! It’s my go to. It’s not impervious to small parts breaking, but it’s far less brittle than others. I’m planning to add some tenacious into the mix at some point for ultimate resilience in small miniature parts.

Bruno Shepard name? I'm from south America and never heard of that

I think monocure is Australian

monocure is aussie based in NSW

monocure..3 days from australia to south africa

Sam Spencer speak to Charlie..he will sort u out no doubt

Ricardo Sebastian Ibacache Guerra it's called Melting 3d

I'd say just get whatever color you like and then mix in about 20-25% Siraya Blu

Monocure rapid is total rubbish.. worst resin on the market

Using monocure as well, very happy with the product and service

Monocure is local Australian. Consideirng shipping costs right now in the covid19 crisis, they might be your best bet.

Greg Baker hmm, for $145/L I’m going to have to pass

I love siraya fast. ABS like, so not so brittle, and a wee bit flexible. And very reasonably priced

In australia difinitely go for monocure. white is weird and it has bad adhesion. Clear worked great.

You know, you can order resin not only from Amazon ;-)

Attila Szécsy

Is it hollow? Could some resin be trapped inside?

I don't think the volume calculations take into account any support material? are you weighing it after support material removal?

the supports are very minimal, and Im weighing the raft and adding a little extra for the rest of the supports. And I calculated it with support material in both chitu and prusa...

No, very thin parts, only about 3-4mm thick

Probably inside the print. Like parts between hollowed areas. Sometimes when you Hollow the print, it seals off another part of the print that is also Hollow, but fills with resin because there are no holes for resin to escape from these sections. Check for that. It happens a lot on prints I've hollowed.

Nothing is hollow, the parts themselves are quite small, only 3-4mm thick.

How about the resin that sticks to the model and gets washed off afterwards? It is known the software estimates are showing less then used in real

You’re using resin on places the software doesn’t take in account

Resin is stuck to the print, that is washed off, that can be quite substantial... so there is "loss" there.
Then there is resin that "sticks" to the buildplate, when your print is done, you will most certainly see some resin dripping off... leave it fo r long enough to regain most of it.
And then there is the resin that goes "on top of" the buildplate, since the build plate goes into the resin, there will always be some resin left on the non-print side....

Resin sticks to the model and the plate as it prints. That's what you have to clean off before final cure. Not a huge mystery.

Ahh, i think i have tricked myself by trying to be clever. I usually leave the prints waiting for an hour or so before cleaning to let the resin drip off. That would explain why there's resin left over but the print failed.

Thanks

I do that myself. I think the longest I've let them 'drip dry' was 2 weeks. lol

Hope you get things squared away!

add more resin mid print, just be careful not to create bubbles. and careful not to shake the printer during opening, is difficult to gently open the door sometimes